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Contemporary Social Work Studies: Contemporary Social Work Studies


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Contemporary Social Work Studies is a series disseminating high quality new research and scholarship in the discipline and profession of social work. The series promotes critical engagement with contemporary issues relevant across the social work community and captures the diversity of interests currently evident at national, international and local levels. CSWS is located in the School of Social Sciences (Social Work Studies Division) at the University of Southampton, UK and is a development from the successful series of books published by Ashgate in association with CEDR (the Centre for Evaluative and Developmental Research) from 1991.

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Social Work in a Corporate Era Practices of Power and Resistance

Social Work in a Corporate Era: Practices of Power and Resistance

1st Edition

Edited By Peter Leonard, Linda Davies
June 07, 2019

A striking new feature of the welfare systems in many Western countries is the extent to which market relations have permeated social services. Conceptions of 'risk management' now dominate the way parents and children are responded to, while new technologies aim to 'measure' their relationship ...

Indigenous Social Work around the World Towards Culturally Relevant Education and Practice

Indigenous Social Work around the World: Towards Culturally Relevant Education and Practice

1st Edition

Edited By Mel Gray, John Coates
November 26, 2018

How can mainstream Western social work learn from and in turn help advance indigenous practice? This volume brings together prominent international scholars involved in both Western and indigenous social work across the globe - including James Midgley, Linda Briskman, Alean Al-Krenawi and John R....

Towards Glocal Social Work in the Era of Compressed Modernity

Towards Glocal Social Work in the Era of Compressed Modernity

1st Edition

By Timo Harrikari, Pirkko-Liisa Rauhala
August 06, 2018

This book addresses the change of social work in the frame of modernisation. Through Mary Richmond’s classical idea of social work, the book seeks to set current societal trends affecting social work into the context of a long historical line, opening spaces for the new debates within the social ...

Beyond Racial Divides Ethnicities in Social Work Practice

Beyond Racial Divides: Ethnicities in Social Work Practice

1st Edition

By Lena Dominelli, Walter Lorenz, Haluk Soydan
October 19, 2016

Written by leading authorities in the field, this challenging book addresses complex issues of ethnicity and racial discrimination in ways that encourage further debate and analysis. Its main theme is that social work has been and remains, deeply implicated in racist policies and practices that ...

Broadening Horizons International Exchanges in Social Work

Broadening Horizons: International Exchanges in Social Work

1st Edition

Edited By Lena Dominelli, Wanda Thomas Bernard
September 19, 2003

While the remit of social work professionals is, in general, locality-based, social work has a long tradition of concern about international issues. Broadening Horizons provides an engaging and original contribution to the debate on how to tackle social work problems on a global scale. Filling ...

Reflecting on Social Work - Discipline and Profession

Reflecting on Social Work - Discipline and Profession

1st Edition

Edited By Robin Lovelock, Karen Lyons
August 26, 2016

Social work has always been a contested activity and its status as an academic discipline remains uncertain. There is currently renewed interest in the theoretical and research dimensions of social work, at a time when significant changes in the broad social, political and economic context in which...

Working with Ethnic Minorities and Across Cultures in Western Child Protection Systems

Working with Ethnic Minorities and Across Cultures in Western Child Protection Systems

1st Edition

By Pooja Sawrikar
December 13, 2016

Multiculturalism in Western countries continues to grow, but responsiveness to it with culturally sensitive research, policy and practice has been slower to develop. This lag could be accused of enabling institutional racism – that is, culturally insensitive practices and policies can cause or ...

Intercountry Adoption Policies, Practices, and Outcomes

Intercountry Adoption: Policies, Practices, and Outcomes

1st Edition

By Karen Smith Rotabi, Judith L. Gibbons
September 15, 2015

Intercountry adoption represents a significant component of international migration; in recent years, up to 45,000 children have crossed borders annually as part of the intercountry adoption boom. Proponents have touted intercountry adoption as a natural intervention for promoting child welfare. ...

Practice and Research

Practice and Research

1st Edition

By Ian F. Shaw
November 17, 2016

Practice and Research is an overview of Professor Ian Shaw's analysis of the complexity and challenges of the practice/research relationship in social work - a theme that has been the focus of much of his writing over his career. Introduced with a new essay that reflects on the 'serendipity, ...

Decolonizing Social Work

Decolonizing Social Work

1st Edition

Edited By Mel Gray, John Coates, Michael Yellow Bird, Tiani Hetherington
September 13, 2016

Riding on the success of Indigenous Social Work Around the World, this book provides case studies to further scholarship on decolonization, a major analytical and activist paradigm among many of the world’s Indigenous Peoples, including educators, tribal leaders, activists, scholars, politicians, ...

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